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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:18 pm
by timvw
- At first i preferred editors like UltraEdit, Crimson editor, syntext..
- On the other hand i tried ide's like ZDE, Eclipse(php), PHP Designer, PHPEdit, Borland JBuilder, Codewarrior, VS and VS.Net..
- I also learned to work with Vim (more than :wq and :q!)
Currently i prefer syntext when working in X and vim for console...
I've decided to start learning emacs this summer.. But currently it's a PITA because it interferes with "screen" which also handles CTRL+ keys...
For CVS i use TortoiseCVS and kCVS...
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:55 pm
by hansteam
I use the only PHP editor worth using: Notepad!!!

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:52 pm
by Ambush Commander
Hmm... do you indent your code? It's kinda important that your editor automatically indents code for you: it's really annoying if it doesn't.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:25 pm
by theda
Notepad is an awesome tool to use, but for some reason, it will render a file completely garbled...
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:44 pm
by hansteam
I place two spaces instead of indents since the indents are so huge. I've never liked any of the editors I've tried. I guess I've got a good list here that I could work off of but I can't say that I've ever had trouble with notepad...
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:34 pm
by theda
Notepad is nice and all, but like I said, it tends to screw up the encoding (or such) and cause a million [] like shapes to show up instead of the indentation that it had. That and it only, as default, saves as .txt.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:35 pm
by Deemo
yes, i also use 2 spaces. It also looks good everywhere, so you dont need to worry about people with low resolutions having trouble reading your code
I love PHPEclipse mainly because i love the Eclipse IDE. however it is lacking of a few features ive come to need.
A) The debugger is kinda weird.
B) No built in profiler
C) Code completion is kinda screwy
So decided to use Zend Studio. Now, this is a great program for PHP devs, however it has a few downfalls
A) Its a HUGE system hog
B) It is buggy if you have multiple JREs
C) Costs alot
If PHPEclipse had a profiler and maybe an improved debugger, i would definetely use it all the time, but Zend is my choice for now
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:12 am
by Devnull
PHP Designer 2005!
It's free, has a nice interface and supports other languages such as XHTML, CSS and Javascript

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:19 pm
by Stewsburntmonkey
I began with notepad and VI, but now use EditPlus2. I like the auto-indent and especially the ability to do multi-line operations like commenting out whole chunks of code or more importantly indenting long stretches of code. I found nothing more annoying than finding I needed another if somewhere and having to re-indent all my lines by hand. Now I just highlight and press ctrl-i. . . magic!

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:44 pm
by apg88
I used Dreamweaver MX a few years ago, but since I switched to linux, I use Screem
http://www.screem.org/
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:43 am
by Jean-Yves
Stewsburntmonkey wrote:I began with notepad and VI, but now use EditPlus2. I like the auto-indent and especially the ability to do multi-line operations like commenting out whole chunks of code or more importantly indenting long stretches of code. I found nothing more annoying than finding I needed another if somewhere and having to re-indent all my lines by hand. Now I just highlight and press ctrl-i. . . magic!

Yeah, I used to use Maguma Studio until the product became so buggy and the support so poor that I bought EditPlus2 instead. I have never looked back since.
On OS X I use TextWrangler, although it's not as good (imo) as EditPlus2. Maybe I just haven't learnt all of its tricks yet.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:01 pm
by BruceT
95%+ of my time is spent working in Linux, where I use Quanta Plus/kdewebdev (which uses the kate editor "plugin" from KDE). The times I have to use Windows, I use UltraEdit.
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:42 am
by pilau
I use
DzSoft PHP Editor.
Very simple and supports JavaScript as well as PHP and HTML (don't know how it's like in other browsers).
Shame it only won't recognize CSS.
Do you know any editors that do?
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:55 am
by Jenk
SciTE
Clean, simplistic and the most customisable editor I've used to date.
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Also has code folding, which is a god send on pages with 500+ lines.
Is also open source.
(I've used UltraEdit32, TextPad, Zend, NotePad2, NotePad++ and some others and still prefer SciTE

)
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:47 am
by _dev
twigletmac wrote:
Editplus - I've been using it since I got really irritated with Notepad whilst coding 'my first website' and now I'm sort of thinking I need something more but I really like Editplus.
http://www.editplus.com
Mac
same story here
it's just so customizable